Today is Wednesday, Sept. 29, the 273rd day of 2004. There are 93 days left in the year. On this

Today is Wednesday, Sept. 29, the 273rd day of 2004. There are 93 days left in the year. On this date in 1978, Pope John Paul I is found dead in his Vatican apartment just over a month after becoming head of the Roman Catholic Church.
In 1789, the U.S. War Department establishe a regular army with a strength of several hundred men. In 1829, London's reorganized police force, which becomes known as Scotland Yard, goes on duty. In 1918, Allied forces score a decisive breakthrough of the Hindenburg Line during World War I. In 1943, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower and Italian Marshal Pietro Badoglio sign an armistice aboard the British ship Nelson off Malta. In 1954, the movie musical "A Star Is Born," starring Judy Garland and James Mason, has its world premiere at the Pantages Theater in Hollywood. In 1963, "The Judy Garland Show" premieres on CBS. In 1963, the second session of Second Vatican Council opens in Rome. In 1979, Pope John Paul II becomes the first pope to visit Ireland as he arrives for a three-day tour. In 1982, seven people in the Chicago area die after unwittingly taking Extra-Strength Tylenol capsules laced with cyanide. In 1988, the space shuttle "Discovery" blasts off from Cape Canaveral marking America's return to manned space flight following the "Challenger" disaster. In 1994, the House votes to end the age-old practice of lobbyists buying meals and entertainment for members of Congress; the first phase of jury selection in the O.J. Simpson murder trial ends, with a pool of 304 potential jurors chosen. In 1999, Vice President Al Gore abruptly moves his presidential campaign headquarters from Washington, D.C., to Nashville to get "out of the Beltway and into the heartland."
September 29, 1979: State Sen. Thomas E. Carney tells Girard City Council that $5 million will be set aside in Ohio's next biennial budget for construction of senior citizen centers and Girard should apply for a grant of about $600,000 to build a local center. Another $300,00 in federal money might be available.
Youngstown fire investigators suspect arson in a fire that destroyed the 1972 American Motors car of Sixth Ward Councilman Robert Spencer. Spencer, who lives at 50 Pinehurst Ave., said a neighbor called to tell him his car was on fire. He fought the fire with a garden hose until firemen arrived, to no avail.
An estimated 1.2 million people, a third of Ireland's population, turns out for a Mass by Pope John Paul II on the vast green of Dublin's Phoenix Park.
September 29, 1964: Barring unforeseen circumstances, the $40 million General Motors plant at Lordstown will begin producing Chevrolets several months ahead of schedule, sometime in early 1966, says Semon E. Knudsen, general manager of the Chevrolet Motor Division.
A revolutionary technique for eye cataract surgery using a new instrument called an ice scalpel is introduced in Youngstown at South Side Hospital.
September 29, 1954: Business has begun looking up in recent weeks and some Youngstown district steel producers and steel customers have begun recalling furloughed workers.
Members of a juvenile gang calling itself "The Syndicate" are being investigated as part of the probe of vandalism at the new Chaney High School.
Youngstown is getting about 20 percent less bus service than was offered in the recession year of 1938 because ridership has fallen to a level lower than that of all but three worst Depression years. Traction Commission E. L. Tennyson attributes the drop-off to a continuing decline in steel production, employment, payrolls and department store sales.
September 29, 1929: Bruce Rogers, who knows Mill Creek Park better than any other man, leads a party of 50 Nature Club members on a walk through the park, commemorating the day 40 years earlier, when his brother, Volney Rogers, sent him a long telegram describing his dream of establishing a beautiful natural park in Youngstown.
Steps will be taken by Mahoning County Treasurer Warren Steel to collect over $1.5 million in delinquent real estate and property taxes.
Bishop Charles E. Locke of St. Paul, Minn., son of the late Rev. W.H. Locke, former pastor of Trinity M.E. Church in Youngstown, visits his sister, Katherine M. Locke of Bryson Street. He will preside at an M.E. Church conference in Pittsburgh.